Nematode Information » Galleria-baiting technique http://nematodeinformation.com a blog about insect and plant parasitic nematodes Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Occurrence of entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltiae in Slovenia http://nematodeinformation.com/occurrence-of-entomopathogenic-nematode-steinernema-feltiae-in-slovenia http://nematodeinformation.com/occurrence-of-entomopathogenic-nematode-steinernema-feltiae-in-slovenia#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:55:37 +0000 Ganpati Jagdale http://nematodeinformation.com/?p=356 Presence of an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema feltiae (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) was recorded for first time in soil samples collected from grasslands and field crops in central part of Slovenia. Nematodes were isolated using Galleria-baiting technique (Bedding and Akhurst, 1975) and identified using molecular technique.

Read following literature for more information

Bedding, R.A. and R.J. Akhurst. 1975. A simple technique for detection of insect parasitic rhabditid nematodes in soil. Nematologica. 21: 109-110.

Laznik, Z., Toth, T., Lakatos, T., Vidrih, M. and Trdan, S. 2009.  First record of Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) in Slovenia. Helminthologia. 46: 135-138.

]]> http://nematodeinformation.com/occurrence-of-entomopathogenic-nematode-steinernema-feltiae-in-slovenia/feed 0 A new record of entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis megidis from Turkey http://nematodeinformation.com/a-new-record-of-entomopathogenic-nematode-heterorhabditis-megidis-from-turkey http://nematodeinformation.com/a-new-record-of-entomopathogenic-nematode-heterorhabditis-megidis-from-turkey#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:42:46 +0000 Ganpati Jagdale http://nematodeinformation.com/?p=216 Presence of entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis megidis have been reported for the first time in the soil samples collected form Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.  Nematodes were isolated using Galleria-baiting technique (Bedding and Akhurst, 1975) and identified using classical morphological (Poinar et al. 1987) and molecular techniques (Yilmaz et al., 2009).

Read following literature for more information

Bedding, R.A. and R.J. Akhurst. 1975. A simple technique for detection of insect parasitic rhabditid nematodes in soil. Nematologica. 21: 109-110

Poinar, G. O., Jr., T. Jackson, and M. Klein. 1987. Heterorhabditis megidis sp. n. (Heterorhabditidae: Rhabditida) parasitic in the Japanese beetle,Popillia japonica (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera), in Ohio. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 54:53-59.

Yilmaz, H., Waeyenberge, L., Demir, I., Moens, M., Demirbağ, Z. 2009. A new entomopathogenic nematode species for Turkey, Heterorhabditis megidis Poinar, Jackson & Klein 1987 (Rhabditida: Heterorhabditidae). Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry. 33: 385-391.

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